@tuttle Last weekend I was ready to stay home instead of going to a "fix/remake" workshop (me representing !umehack) because they hadn't setup _any_ communication outside of walled gardens (apart from collecting emails). I had told them they should get just an ordinary website. It didn't happen until I explained that only supporting walled gardens directly oppose a ha…Tuesday, 19-Apr-2016 04:21:43 EDTfrom social.umeahackerspace.sepermalink

Well ok, maybe the #Facebook one requires javascript to load all the way there even (I don't know, I don't use it). But at least when SO CALLED FRIENDS (those who get used by Facebook) run on a bad internet connection, like with #Tor, they often get that center-column-image-thing and I spend all of the 1.23 seconds of its screentime in mental agony. Then I continue tha…Saturday, 12-Mar-2016 04:19:43 ESTfrom social.umeahackerspace.sepermalink

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The WORST. No, maybe not worst. But the nastiest, most insidious, thing I experience on the web must be sites that require javascript to _fully_ load. Not just "you need javascript". But "here you go, all the HTML elements you need, table layout and whatnot - but most of them are PLACEHOLDERS". Wtf?! This happens on multiple sites where there is a long list of elements…Saturday, 12-Mar-2016 04:17:42 ESTfrom social.umeahackerspace.seat 63°49'42"N 20°15'34"Epermalink

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@echosa It's not the fault of those people, but the closed apps that run every proprietary service. If #GooglePlus and #Facebook were available using a standard #XMPP client the average user wouldn't care either, but they would have the ability to mix'n'match their discussion no matter where it took place. Those services would then also be in competition with each other, leading …Thursday, 25-Feb-2016 15:34:19 ESTfrom n2.federati.netpermalink